Ocala News

Fuller sets up for the happy hour sing-off. Teams compete by receiving the same word and singing songs that contain the word until there's one team left standing.

Gov. Rick Scott must soon sign the new state budget, and he's getting intense feedback on all sides: from lawmakers protecting hometown projects, hospitals worried about losing money and a business-backed group criticizing pork-barrel spending.

Ocala, Florida, Tuesday May 14, 2013, ' united we stand ' the vision of a promised land upon the field of dreams, still known as the United States of America today.

In Ocala, May 10 2013, the Ocala City Hall was apparently surrounded by zombies.

A central Florida brother and sister have been arrested after a deputy found a van overflowing with bags of chips that were apparently taken from a Frito-Lay factory.

Dean Jeffries [r] stands with Ken Gross during a segment of the Great Customizers seminar at the 2009 Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance, next to the hot rod designer's wild Mantaray.

Most adults get a one-hour lunch break at work, so why shouldn't students? At Ocala's West Port High School, that's exactly what students have been getting since 2009, according to Ocala.com. At 11 a.m. every morning, all 2,300 students are released for 60 minutes to do whatever they choose.

A 2-year-old colt by Ocala Stud stallion High Cotton, whose main purpose was to help further nutritional and physiological research at the University of Florida/IFAS Equine Sciences Center in Lowell, instead sold for $600,000 - one of the highest prices paid for a horse at the yearly sale.

In September 2012, Jerry "The King" Lawler, the long-time ring announcer for WWE, collapsed during a taping of Monday Night Raw.

According to authorities, a suspected speeding motorist twice eluded cops in Highland Beach, Fla., giving himself enough time to "disappear." When cops caught up to his car, which had stopped, it appeared to be empty.

Marion County deputies are searching for an $18,000 gas-powered golf cart that was stolen from a mobile home park in Ocala.

One of the new full-time sports radio networks, NBC Sports Radio , has announced the addition of several affiliates.

An 80-year-old Ocala woman lost more than $200,000 in a sweepstake scam. The Ocala Star-Banner reports the woman began receiving phone calls in 2012 telling her she had won thousands in a sweepstakes.

Gas prices fluctuated last week after the price of a barrel of oil inched above $90 and on word of a positive U.S. jobs report.

The NBC Sports Network says it now has 266 stations taking some of its content with the addition of new affiliates in L.A., Phoenix, Nashville, Denver, Macon, Gainesville, and Ocala.

An electronic digest of media coverage of interest to members of The Florida Bar compiled each workday by the Public Information and Bar Services Department.

This Ocala hotel, located off Interstate 75, provides each room with satellite TV including the HBO channel.

Doug Kirkland has been ordered to stop representing clients starting Friday, which marks the end of the 30-day period from when the Florida Supreme Court approved the Florida Bar's emergency petition for his suspension.

Volunteer Sharon Whiddon once helped Hillsborough Correctional Institution inmates like Vivia Palmer make aprons.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Wet weather has forced an emergency lane closure on I-95 northbound, just before the Fuller Warren Bridge.